Work With Me

I am a freelance writer, editor and web designer, currently available for work. I love working with creatives, NFPs, and social enterprises.

I strive to bring creativity, empathy and technical awareness to everything I do.

Writing

• As a speculative fiction writer with over fifteen published stories, I have been nominated for an Aurealis Award, featured in Year’s Best Fantasy, and had my work read by LeVar Burton (of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame) on his podcast, LeVar Burton Reads.
• I have been a contributing writer, book reviewer, and journalist for Eternity, at the time Australia’s largest Christian newspaper, with a circulation of 100,000+, contributing stories to both print and digital.
• I wrote a book called Anxiety and Me, published by Matthias Media, a reflection on faith, anxiety, and Psalm 131.
• I really love sentences. I used to have a newsletter about them.

Guan’s voice is gentle, smart, humble and curious. His emails immediately make me feel like I’m part of a community of thinkers and writers that care: about writing, about the world and yes, about sentences.

- S. Shakthidharan, award-winning playwright, Counting and Cracking

Editing

• As a freelance editor of fifteen years, I have worked with clients like The Salvation Army, Mohr Siebeck, Youthworks Media, on everything from promotional materials to complex booklength projects.
• I am an associate editor for ECO24: Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, ed. Marissa Van Uden, from Violet Lichen Press.
• I have been known to proofread my friend’s theses for fun.

Guan has a passion for clarity and creativity in communication combined with astute perception. He managed a significant writing project, has excellent research and editorial skills, as well as technical know-how.

- Col Marshall, author of The Trellis and the Vine

Web Design/Development

I have over nine years experience as a full stack web developer. I love and use Astro day-to-day. But also have (deep breath) Inertia, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, Typescript, React, MySQL in my toolbox.

I learn new systems quickly and am good at explaining them to other people in normal-person-language.

Ways I Can Work With You

• Editing or proofreading, short or long
• Short story consultations
• Planning writing projects, creative or otherwise
• Creative coaching
• Website design and/or maintenance
• Tech/systems architecture and documentation
• All of the above?

If any of this sounds enticing, get in touch. I’d love to hear from you!